Duration
22h Th, 10h Pr, 4h Mon. WS
Number of credits
| Bachelor in veterinary medicine | 4 crédits |
Lecturer
Language(s) of instruction
French language
Organisation and examination
Teaching in the first semester, review in January
Schedule
Units courses prerequisite and corequisite
Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program
Learning unit contents
The course deepens the biostatistics notions. It is focused on hyptheses tests (means comparisons, followed by analyses of variance, regression and correlation analyses). The last section of the course discusses non parametric tests to be used in situations of non-normality.
Learning outcomes of the learning unit
The main objectives of the course are:
- to make the students familiar to the use of computers softwares.
- to explain the statistical reasoning.
- to introduce the notion of statistical hypothesis testing, and to provide numerous examples in biology.
- to list a series of useful techniques, especially the ones mainly used in experiments likely to be made by veterinarians.
- to allow the students to use the theory on practical examples extracted from the veterinary life.
- to open the view of the students for the situations not covered in the course.
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
Basics in mathematics and statistics (the requested level is the level of VETE0432-4 course)
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
- 22 hours of lectures (11*2 hours)
- 10 hours of computer sessions on biostatistics (7*2 hours) using excel and R
- 4 hours of problems solving sessions (2*2 hours).
Mode of delivery (face to face, distance learning, hybrid learning)
2 hours lectures are given, usually twice every week (see the schedule for more details). The course will be given during the first quadrimester. Live sessions and delayed sessions will be available (using "unicast live" from ULiege).
Practical sessions will be planned on a 2 hours by session basis. The schedule will be distributed to the students. If sanitary conditions do not allow classrooms sessions, practical sessions will be organized using video-conferences (lifesize).
Organisational adjustments related to the current health context
Lectures will be as usual, but with a reducet set of students (cohorts A and B). If possible, courses will be retransmitted live and podcasted using either unicast-live or collaborate.
Practical sessions:
- Made on lifesize for the exercises
- Practicals will take place in the computers room, with the necessary sanitary precautions.
Recommended or required readings
Biostatistics book sold at the Editions of ULg
Slides of the lectures available on the web site
Live sessions and podcasts should be made available on the unicast platform of ULiege
Assessment methods and criteria
Below you will find information on the evaluation methods planned for in-person and remote exams as well as those planned for hybrid sessions. Depending on how the health crisis evolves, the chosen method will be communicated to you no later than one month before the start of the exam session.
The evaluations take place in January and, if needed, in September.
The final grade is a mean over:
- an evaluation of the biostatistics skills based on computerized MCQ (stat exam)
- an evaluation of computer applied to biostatistics skills based on a problem solving approach using statistical software (excel, R) (hands-on exam).
Work placement(s)
Organizational remarks
Contacts
Prof. F. Farnir
E-mail : F.Farnir@ulg.ac.be
Tél : 04/366 41 28, Fax : 04/366 41 22
Secretary : 04/366 41 50, Fax : 04/366 41 22
Items online
Website of the course
The website provides all the needed information for the course. This includes a copy of the course slides, the information for the various practical and hands-on sessions, a correction of several exams from the previous academic years, a tool to build interactively multiple choices questions on the various chapters of the course, and other useful tools.